"Peace is the golden wish that binds the sheaf of blessing."  Katherine Lee Bates

"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by."  Maria Schell

"The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."  George W. Bush

"The most peaceful policy is not always the most pacific."  Lord Auckland

"They desire more than anything to be left in peace, a condition they have rarely experienced."  Eric Shipton

"We pray for a day without funerals."  Shimon Peres

Peanut

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."  Channing Pollack

Pearls

"Always wear pearl earrings when you can't figure out yur look."  Pauline Elizabeth Woolworth

"The legends about pearls are legion: They once fell from the sky; they were the tears of Greek gods and mermaids; they are born of a drop of dew or by a meeting of a rainbow with the Earth.  The ancient Chinese believed that pearls were made in the brain of a dragon, and so were considered great symbols of wisdom."  Vogue magazine

Pencil

"You never know when you're going to need a pencil."  Gilmore Girls

Penguin

"Do you think penguins ever get frustrated because they can't dress down?"  Married to the Kellys

People

"I figured out what's wrong with life: it's other people."  Scott Adams,  Dilbert

Perception

"When the doors of perception are cleansed everything appears as it truly is - infinite."  William Blake 

"When you're used to seeing - or, more accurately, not seeing - someone in a certain way, it's difficult to alter your perception."  Catherine Todd,  Exit Strategies  

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done."  John Henry, Cardinal Newman

"All things here is unperfect."  Report to Queen Elizabeth's council prior to the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada

"God made man before woman because God always makes a rough draft before perfection."  Amy Grauer

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."  Salvador Dali

"He is lifeless that is faultless."  English proverb

"Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."  Angelique Arnauld

"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application."  Stanley Randall 

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."  Mark Twain

"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."  Matthew Arnold

Performance

"No excuses.  No promises.  Just performance."  Dan Goldin

"Performance is proven over time."  Goldman Sachs ad

Perfume

"A perfume is more than an extract; it is a presence in abstraction.  A perfume, for me, is a mystique."  Giorgio Armani

"At its core, scent is love, bottled."  Lynn Schaeffer

"The perfumes are the feelings of the flowers."  Heinrich Heine

Permission

"I'm giving you a definite maybe."  Samuel Goldwyn

"I am only an average man, but , by George, I work harder at it than the average man."  Theodore Roosevelt

"I realized early on that success was tied  to not giving up.  Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things.  If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."  Harrison Ford

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.  I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."  Charles F. Kettering

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."  Alfred, Lord Tension,  Ulysses

"We will either find a way or make one."  Hannibal Barca

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."  Napoleon Bonaparte

"You are beaten to earth?  Well, well, what's that?  Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat.  But to lie there - that's a disgrace."  Edmund Cooke